Sunday, September 9, 2012

Cambridge!

We went to Cambridge on Friday!
It was good fun. The drive is about an hour and a half, and we had a lovely tour from an extremely knowledgeable tour guide. We went to Queen's and King's colleges. Pictures will come.
I bought a hoodie, since I didn't bring one, and it's nice. I guess there isn't a ton to post, but I will say that the King's College Chapel is beautiful...more like a cathedral than a chapel. It was very cool to see the town. It's small but really nice. It's a town that pretty clearly popped up around the school, rather than the other way around. A picture post will follow soon.

UPDATE:
I lied, it seems. We saw some very cool things, but at 9:00 at night two days later I forget things.
We saw the lab where Watson and Crick discovered the molecular structure of DNA, and then ate in the pub where they announced said discovery. We also saw the lab where scientists were successful at intentionally spliting the atom for the first time. It had been done before, but mostly by accident.
So that was, you know, just a little bit superawesomecoolandstuff. Just a little.


2 comments:

  1. Science! Rutherford, Watson, Crick, hopefully Rosalind Franklin?

    Did you get to see Newton's (and also formerly Stephen Hawking's) digs as Lucasian Professor? Cambridge, much more than Oxford, is a science pilgrimage site.

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  2. We didn't manage to make it. Our trip was pretty short :\

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